It should be no surprise, since the Congress betrays the voters again and again, but yesterday the Amash Amendment was narrowly voted down in the House of Representatives.
The Amash Amendment, co-sponsored by Rep-Justin Amash (R) and Rep-John Conyers (D), would have taken away the NSA’s funding for the massive surveillance project that was recently exposed by Edward Snowden. As well, the act would have prevented the NSA from using Section 215 of the unPatriot Act to justify the blanket collection of records, including telephone records “that pertain to persons who are not subject to an investigation under Section 215.”
The bill was only defeated by 12 votes. (It’s interesting to note that 12 members of the House just didn’t find it important to vote on this matter: Barletta, Beatty, Bustos, Campbell, Coble, Herrera Beutler, Horsford, McCarthy (NY), Negrete McLeod, Pallone, Rokita, and Schock.)
And here is the Traitor’s List…
Aderholt Alexander Andrews Bachmann Barber Barr Barrow (GA) Benishek Bera (CA) Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Boehner Bonner Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Bucshon Butterfield Calvert Camp Cantor Capito Carney Carter Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Conaway Cook Cooper Costa Cotton Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Culberson Davis (CA) Delaney Denham Dent Diaz-Balart Duckworth Ellmers Engel Enyart Esty Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foster Foxx Frankel (FL) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallego Garcia Gerlach Gibbs Gingrey (GA) Goodlatte Granger Graves (MO) Green, Al Grimm Guthrie Gutierrez Hanabusa |
Hanna Harper Hartzler Hastings (WA) Heck (NV) Heck (WA) Hensarling Higgins Himes Hinojosa Holding Hoyer Hudson Hunter Hurt Israel Issa Jackson Lee Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Johnson, Sam Joyce Kaptur Kelly (IL) Kelly (PA) Kennedy Kilmer Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kirkpatrick Kline Kuster Lance Langevin Lankford Larsen (WA) Latham Latta Levin Lipinski LoBiondo Long Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Maloney, Sean Marino Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McIntyre McKeon McKinley McNerney Meehan Meeks Meng Messer Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nunes Nunnelee Olson Palazzo Paulsen Payne Pelosi |
Peters (CA) Peters (MI) Peterson Pittenger Pitts Pompeo Price (NC) Quigley Reed Reichert Renacci Rigell Roby Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ruiz Runyan Ruppersberger Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Schakowsky Schneider Schwartz Scott, Austin Scott, David Sessions Sewell (AL) Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Stivers Stutzman Terry Thompson (CA) Thornberry Tiberi Titus Turner Upton Valadao Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Visclosky Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Wasserman Schultz Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (FL) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Young (FL) Young (IN) |
Their justification, of course, is that the citizens of the country just don’t understand the need for complete surveillance. After all, they’re just keeping us safe, right?
Considering the ire that was even heard in the mainstream media about the NSA’s overreaching and unconstitutional snooping, it’s a pretty fair bet that the “Representatives” are doing anything but “representing” the wishes of their constituents.
Source: The Daily Sheeple
Wake up,you despicable,sleeping sheep in America!!!!! Ed Snowden,Private Bradley,and Julian Assange should be given the Noble Peace Prize,and 100 pounds each of pure gold for exposing this war criminal,terrorist government we have in the U.S.A.!!!!!!! All you filthy sleeping sheep in America are interested in is football,baseball,basketball,a 6 pack of Budweiser beer,and your Dorital,Pringle chips and you are happier than a pig playing in shit! Most of you sleeping sheep cannot find Canada on the world map,not alone name the capital of Canada! SHAME ON YOU-WISE UP FAST!!!!! People like Senator Lindsey Graham,and John Mc Cain[war mongers]need to be put in prison for life and the key thrown away and fed water and hard,moldy bread for as long as they are alive!!!!! A concerned American citizen whose heart bleeds for this once great country[A world power on borrowed Chinese money is no world power at all! Have wee not learned from the past?
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This list makes the criminals easier to identify.
Also, does anyone know the 12 names who did not vote?
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Consider that each & every member above voted to continue funding an unConstitutional program in violation of their sworn duty and oath of office. Regardless of their excuse, each has a sworn duty to uphold the law and each has violated the public trust. They, like all Americans are bound to obey the law; but they, unlike the rest of Americans, have the ability to change any and all laws. Thus, it is important to remember that the voters gave these people the authority to make, change and repeal laws but not any permission to violate the law. This said, there must be serious consequences for their vote. There are two names that jump off the page and both deserve to be singled out for extraordinary disciplinary action. They are the present and former Speakers Of The House: John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi. For their deliberate violation of the Constitution, breach of the public trust and other crimes against the American people, both must be immediately removed from Congress by whatever legal means available & necessary.